FruitLook Training Thursday 30 November and Thursday 7 December

You are welcome to register for Thursday 30 November and Thursday 7 December for our FruitLook Basics Training (09.00 - 12.00) and FruitLook Consultation sessions (12.30 onwards).

November 20, 2017 - With the start of the FruitLook 2017-18 season we providing our monthly Elsenburg training sessions. We have a training session planned on Thursday 30 November and Thursday 7 December, which is seperated in FruitLook Basics and FruitLook Consultation sessions. FruitLook Basics helps you get up-to-speed with your FruitLook usage for the coming season, both in using the website and understanding the data. FruitLook Consultation is for the more advanced user who has specific questions on FruitLook.

The training is provided at the Main Building of the Deparment of Agriculture, Elsenburg (for directions click HERE). For more information or to register please contact info@fruitlook.co.za.

FruitLook 2017-18 newsletters

September 13, 2017 - In the newsletter much useful information can be found about FruitLook and the way you can use the data layers. For your convenience, the newsletters of FruitLook 2017-18 are listed here. You can open them by clicking on the name of the respective newsletter. The newsletters of olders FruitLook seasons are also accessible in this news section, just scroll down!

We are looking for.. a FruitLook TechCoach!

June 27, 2017 - Would you like to work on the forefront of technological development in agriculture? We are looking for a new FruitLook Team member who can help farmers implement space technology in their daily farming routine. If you are interested, please send us a cover letter with your CV before Wednesday 19 July 2017.

FruitLook featured on Al Jazeera's earthrise

June 21, 2017 - FruitLook has been covered in Al Jazeera’s award-winning earthrise series. This episode focuses on coping strategies for the ongoing drought in South Africa and looks at some innovative methods of sustainable farming and food production as climate change intensifies. See video below for the full story, the part on FruitLook starts at 8m25s:

FruitLook 2016-17 newsletters

April 24, 2017 - In the newsletter much useful information can be found about FruitLook and the way you can use the data layers. For your convenience, the newsletters of FruitLook 2016-17 are listed here. You can open them by clicking on the name of the respective newsletter.

FruitLook 2015-16 newsletters

May 2, 2016 - In the newsletter much useful information can be found about FruitLook and the way you can use the data layers. For your convenience, the newsletters of FruitLook 2015-16 are listed here. You can open them by clicking on the name of the respective newsletter.

FruitLook Movie

December 8, 2015 - A FruitLook Movie has been created for the Dutch Trade Mission to South Africa in November 2015. FruitLook was one of the presented innovations representative for successful Dutch - South African cooperation. At the event a FruitLook Movie was on display.

The movie resembles a fly-over by the satellite and visualizes the capture of crop production during the growth season. The movie starts with a West-to-East fly-over from the northern side of Cape Town (you can see Cape Town on your bottom right) via Paarl and Worcester to De Doorns. Above De Doorns a time lapse portrays the monthly Biomass Production as captured and provided via FruitLook.

FruitLook Questionnaire Results

June 22, 2015 - Efficient management of water resources is invaluable for
perseverance and future growth of the fruit and wine production industries in
the Western Cape. FruitLook is seen as a valuable tool for producers and the
fruit industry as a whole on the road to sustainable resource management. But
does FruitLook indeed help the fruit production sector to become more
water/resource efficient?

The FruitLook questionnaire has been disseminated on April
22 to investigate this question. The results show an encouraging picture. Clear
benefits are indicated to be a reduction in irrigation water application and
especially an increase in efficient water management by the FruitLook user.
More than 60% of the respondents indicated FruitLook helped them manage their
water more efficiently by at least 10%. FruitLook was deemed especially useful
to detect over- or underirrigation, for the placement of soil moisture probes,
the detection of drainage problems and post-seasonal evaluation of irrigation
efficiency. Less value was given to FruitLook’s ability to aid in irrigation
scheduling and the detection of irrigation problems like pipe-breaks. The
results indicate FruitLook furthermore provides a strong asset to post seasonal
evaluation of problem blocks, detection and solving in-season growth issues and
gaining improved block uniformity.